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What an AI beauty report actually tells you
Most beauty quizzes ask twelve questions and hand you a product list. A beauty report starts from your photo instead: the skin you have, the colouring you were born with and the face shape under it all. It then writes the routine, the shade families and the placement that follow from those facts. This guide walks through what a good one covers, what should be free before you pay and how to read yours in five minutes.
The ten things a complete beauty report covers
If a report skips any of these you are paying for a quiz with better fonts. The Beauty Report covers all ten from one face photo, with hands and feet as optional extras:
A calibrated Beauty Score
A strict 1-10 score with a tier from Needs a reset to Editorial, a percentile and the three descriptor words your look reads as today. The number is the same scale for every face, so it means something.
Skin type and a routine
Your skin type and undertone, three ranked concerns and an AM, PM and weekly routine written by category, with what you should expect to see change by week four.
Colour season
Your 12-season result with wearable swatches, the shades to skip and your metals, because every lip and hair colour call later in the report depends on it.
A complexion map
Foundation shade family and finish, concealer, then blush, contour, highlight and setting placed for your specific face shape rather than a generic diagram.
Eyes and brows
Your eye shape read, liner technique, shadow shades and placement, lashes, then the brow shape, arch position, fill and grooming that balance it.
Three lip shades
A daytime, a deeper and a bold option as swatches, with liner and finish, all pulled from your season.
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Hair colour and three cuts
A colour family with three shades, three cuts with the exact words to say to a stylist and a straight yes or no on bangs.
Three complete looks
Everyday, Work and Evening written end to end: base, eyes, lips, hair, palette and the minutes each takes.
Manicure and pedicure brief
Nail shape and length for your hands, shade families and a copyable Salon ask you can show at the desk.
A kit and a 4-week plan
Eight to ten items by category ranked essential, next and nice, never brands, plus a photo verdict with a retake brief and a plan ordered by visible impact.
What should be free before you pay
You should never have to pay to learn your score. On LooksMeter the free scan returns the Beauty Score, the tier, the percentile and the three descriptor words with no account. The paid report earns its price through what it says about that number, not by hiding it.
The second thing that should be clear before you pay is the Look. Everyday, Evening and No-makeup makeup are three different briefs with different base weights, eye definition and time budgets. Pick the one you actually wear most days, because the whole report is written for it.
How to read your report in five minutes
Start with the verdict: it names what already works, the one thing holding the look back and your biggest lever. Then read the complexion map, because base and placement change a photo more than any single colour product. Open the Glow Up render next to your original and notice that the difference is skin, brows and colour, not structure. Finally skip to the 4-week plan and do item one this week. The colour swatches, the salon ask and the kit are reference material for when you shop or book.
Beauty report vs beauty quiz vs shade finder
A quiz asks what you think your skin is. A brand shade finder matches you to that brand's range and nothing else. A beauty report reads the photo, keeps every recommendation at category level and ties skin, colour, face shape and hair together so the advice does not contradict itself. The trade is honesty: it will tell you when a trend does not suit your shape and it never promises a result, only a direction and a way to check it with a re-scan.
Frequently asked
What is an AI beauty report?
A single written report on how you present, produced from one face photo. It reads your skin, colouring, face shape, eye shape, lips, brows, hair and nails together and turns them into placement, shade families and a routine. LooksMeter's version is The Beauty Report, written for the Look you pick: Everyday, Evening or No-makeup makeup.
What is free in a beauty report?
On LooksMeter the scan returns your Beauty Score on a strict 1-10 scale, your tier, your percentile and the three words your look reads as today, free and without an account. The written verdict, the Glow Up render, skin routine, colour season, complexion map, eyes, lips, hair, nails, kit and 4-week plan are the one-time paid report.
Does an AI makeup analysis recommend brands?
The Beauty Report never does. Every item is a category plus the shade family, finish and placement that suits your photo, so the advice works at any budget and never dates when a product is discontinued.
What photo should I upload?
One front-on photo in even daylight, hair off the face, no filter and no heavy makeup if you want the skin and undertone read to be accurate. Hands and feet are optional extras for the manicure and pedicure brief.
Is the Glow Up image a filter?
No. It is your own photo rendered once with the skin, brows, colour and hair direction from the report applied. Bone structure is untouched, nothing is slimmed and nothing is reshaped. It shows the plan, not a different person.
How is a beauty report different from a face report?
A face report measures structure: harmony dimensions, PSL, geometry. A beauty report tells you what to do with that structure: product, placement, colour and routine. If you want the numbers, The Face Report. If you want the finished face, The Beauty Report.
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The Beauty Report
Free Beauty Score, tier and percentile, then the full written report
What makeup suits me?
Match makeup to your face shape, eye shape and colouring
How to find your foundation shade
Undertone, depth and finish explained
Blush and contour by face shape
Where each product goes on round, square, oval, heart and long faces
Best nail shape for your hands
Match shape and length to finger length and nail bed width
Colour analysis
Find your 12-season palette from one photo
Face shape detector
Primary and runner-up shape with match percentage
Keep reading
What makeup suits me?
Face shape decides placement, eye shape decides liner and shadow, colouring decides every shade. How to read all three.
How to find your foundation shade
Undertone, depth and finish as three separate decisions, the jawline swatch test and what a photo-based shade family adds.
Blush and contour placement by face shape
Where blush, contour and highlight go on round, square, long, heart, diamond and oval faces plus the mistakes that age a face.
This page is general information about facial aesthetics terminology, not medical or cosmetic advice. Scores from our tools are calibrated reads of one photo that describe presentation, never your worth.